Posted on 06/21/2010 12:38:28 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
MIAMI (Reuters) - Get your ear plugs ready, the Vuvuzela is going global. The Florida Marlins baseball team handed out free horns to the first 15,000 fans through the gate for their game with the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday.
Not surprisingly, as anyone who has watched a World Cup match would know, the result was a night of constant, vibrating noise.
While the young fans brandishing the mini-version of the South African plastic horn enjoyed the fun, the players were not amused.
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Amish again?
How stupid was it for the Marlins to give away those horns? I strongly suspect that the Marlins have heard from their TV and radio people, and I doubt they’ll do anything that stupid again.
Soccer is basically unwatchable to begin with, but add the obnoxious drone and it’s a non-starter.
Anyway, if somebody showed up at a Phillies game with one of those idiotic things he’d end up farting through it because of where it would get shoved...
Awwww, the overpaid felonious drug takers had an unenjoyable night playing a game..... how sad....
I remember a train, a firetruck and a police car and maybe one or two more.
I was perhaps 8 or 10 years old at the time and wondered why a kid wanted to fill his ears with such a cacaphony of noise.
To this day, I have never bought for my kids nor grandkids any noisemaking toys ... except a gun when they were ready.
Noise is apparently the filter of choice for many whom might have ears to hear, but choose not.
DUMB
Now if we could only move the vuvuzuela craze to
Congress, give free horns to the visitors in the
gallery!
Be interesting to see them at a state of the Union.
Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!
Yeah, you wouldn't want to risk waking those Phillies players from their slumbers.
They should give them to the Congress. I can see the State of the Unions speech now.
I remember way back when we had a “Vroom” that mounted to the bicycle. It’s not the bicycle itself. It was black and plastic and had a red pump handle, and a switch that would make it go from a roaring sound to a screech.
It was quite loud. Now I realize how much that neighbors must have hated us.
Every time I hear Barack Obama’s voice, I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is...more vuvuzela.
Oh, it wouldn't be the players who would stick those horns where the sun don't shine - - it would be the other fans.
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